Re: [Build Advice] Win 98 / DOS build — Help confirming parts stock + P-III w/ ASUS P2B-F motherboard

Posted on 2021-06-29, 22:59

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by shamino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Your current Katmai 450MHz CPU already draws more power than most Coppermines. If you don't need a ton of speed then a P3-600E is a good option for a system like this, in fact it's pretty much ideal for cost and power/heat. They've always been cheap on eBay (haven't looked recently) and run very …

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Re: Atari 2600 and Intellivision NOAC (Nintendo on a chip) clones.

Posted on 2021-06-25, 18:31

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by shamino

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

The Atari 2600 and NES at least both use a CPU that is derived from the MOS 6502 . The Intellivision uses something completely different, AFAICR . True about the CPUs, but the graphics and sound are still very different, and that really gives each system it's personality. None of the original …

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Re: Atari 2600 and Intellivision NOAC (Nintendo on a chip) clones.

Posted on 2021-06-23, 03:14

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by shamino

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

The NES is ill-suited to imitate Atari hardware because they're designed completely differently. I don't know much about the Intellivision but I would guess it's just as problematic for that system. Somebody was tempted to do it anyway because the NOAC chips were already sitting there and cheaply …

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Re: Geforce 7 series backwards compatibility

Posted on 2021-06-20, 00:35

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by shamino

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in Marvin \ Video

thx guys I couldn't find any threads discussing the GF7 in depth, and I searched for quite a while. I want to use one of the cards with PCIe-AGP bridge chip, if i can get ahold of one I don't know what motherboard you intend to use, but bear in mind the bridged AGP cards will start artifacting ( …

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Re: ATI HD 2600 XT Windows 98 Drivers?

Posted on 2021-06-18, 21:43

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by shamino

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in Marvin \ Video

An HD2600XT is a great card for pushing an AGP system in XP, and it can accelerate HD video if you use the right player software. For win98 though it's too new to work as has been said. For P3 motherboards like you listed, you should probably avoid "bridged" cards (which use a translator chip to …

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Re: NOS Velocity (nVidia Riva) 128 Questions

Posted on 2021-06-18, 09:05

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by shamino

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in Marvin \ Video

Do you think general purpose caps like the ones I mentioned are ok? I'll probably swap out the larger caps regardless, they seem to be on the output section and if the rep of this chip is anything to go by it needs all the help it can get! I don't know what kind of caps other Riva128 cards used, …

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Re: NOS Velocity (nVidia Riva) 128 Questions

Posted on 2021-06-16, 19:32

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by shamino

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in Marvin \ Video

I have 2 STB RIVA128 ZX cards that don't have a heatsink on the GPU, one came out of a Dell where I doubt anybody messed with it. I ran at least one of them pretty hard doing benchmarks. I don't know how hot the chip got but I don't think a heatsink was considered necessary at the time so having any …

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Re: Old Video Cards On New Systems (OVCONS)

Posted on 2021-06-10, 21:42

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by shamino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I moderately upgraded the video card a couple times, it now has a GTX285 in it. That's why I stick to GTX280, which can be software undervolted and is reasonably quiet after that. I wish I had that model. Being able to software undervolt this card would be really nice. The variants of these cards …

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Re: Old Video Cards On New Systems (OVCONS)

Posted on 2021-06-10, 03:55

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by shamino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My main PC is a socket AM3 machine that I built back when it's motherboard and CPU were new.. probably 2010. I moderately upgraded the video card a couple times, it now has a GTX285 in it. Powering up can be frustrating because this system occasionally trips the PSU's overcurrent protection when it …

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Re: Worst tips from tech support

Posted on 2021-06-08, 23:47

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by shamino

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in Milliways

We had very unreliable cable internet with Suddenlink in rural California. For a few years though, when I called I'd be connected to some guy who knew what he was doing and would have an intelligent conversation with me to identify the problem. That was nice. Then it all changed and I started …

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Re: EA just removed several Need for Speed games from their digital platforms

Posted on 2021-06-05, 20:03

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by shamino

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in Milliways

Different publisher but something similar happened to Test Drive Unlimited 1 and 2. That was Infogrames aka "Atari" which they bought the right to call themselves. I really wanted TDU1 but it was pulled from sale before I started using Steam. There was a very long period (probably a couple years) …

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Re: K6-2+ 500mhz CPU Cooler doesn't start spinning ?

Posted on 2021-05-30, 20:16

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by shamino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Depending what you know about the history of the board, this damage could have been caused by a single bad fan. Sometimes they draw too much current when they go bad. Even if the board has separate transistors for each header, the failing fan sometimes gets moved around to "test" each header, …

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Re: 90's 10/100 ethernet switch

Posted on 2021-05-25, 21:42

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by shamino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Going back to what I actually used as new in the late 90s - we had a consumer SMC Barricade 8(7?) port router that included a serial port for a shared external modem. It would autodial when somebody tried to use the internet. It might have also had an LPT port for a printer but I'm not sure. I …

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Re: 90's 10/100 ethernet switch

Posted on 2021-05-25, 21:37

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by shamino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I used to use a Linksys EFAH24 10/100 hub, until I started upgrading some machines to GbE. It would sometimes lock up when it was cold, but once warmed up it worked well. If you're like me, you want to hook up a lot of connections but very few of them will be in use at one time so hub vs switch …

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Re: When publishers break software on purpose (Adobe in this case)

Posted on 2021-05-23, 03:22

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by shamino

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in Milliways

Older appliances generally work a lot better than new ones, because older appliances are designed to do their job, while modern appliances use computers to figure how to avoid doing it in the name of "efficiency". Dishwashing machines don't wash dishes, nor do they dry them. Refrigerators don't keep …

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Re: V.90 or V.92 56k Serial Modem w/ DOS, WFW 3.11, Win98 support

Posted on 2021-05-21, 19:03

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by shamino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In the rural area I just moved from (outskirts of an unincorporated area with about 2000+ homes), Cable was chronically awful. Cable was randomly losing service for hours every other day, sometimes for entire days, and then had a 2+ week long outage which is when many people (including us) finally …

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Re: Help with PSU Choice for XP Build

Posted on 2021-05-21, 04:05

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by shamino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

AcBel API4FS06 (550W ) might be a cheap and quality option, but only if you don't mind modifying it. You'll need a source of 6pin power connectors to add to it. It's a great PSU from some Sun workstation, thousands of them got liquidated as NOS years ago so there's still a lot of new ones floating …

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Re: Help me diagnose an LCD

Posted on 2021-05-21, 03:10

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by shamino

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

this obviously isn't image rentention because then it would actually look like whatever was on there before - i don't think the taskbar is wavy like that and wraps around the corner. I've had image retention problems on 2 or 3 monitors and it had that same waviness. The effect isn't binary. But I …

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Re: Help me diagnose an LCD

Posted on 2021-05-20, 23:11

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by shamino

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Did the taskbar (or maybe that sidebar from Vista?) live on the right side of the screen before now? I've had a similar looking problem at the bottom of the screen on some monitors. I've also had it happen pretty easily on rarely used secondary monitors because of icons or programs that I left open …

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Re: GPU for 440BX machine with 133 MHz bus?

Posted on 2021-05-20, 23:00

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by shamino

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in Marvin \ Video

The Geforce4 MX cards are among those I would have suggested, so I'm surprised you're having trouble with an MX440. In general I think cards in the NVidia Geforce2/3/4 range have been known to work well at 89MHz AGP. Cards I've used that way are Geforce2 MX, Geforce3, and Ti4200. My Radeon 9800 Pro …

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